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TIL: Hitler Plotted to Kill Churchill With Exploding Chocolate

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6EpDw TIL Owners of overweight cats are more likely to say their cat is like a child to them, & are more likely to talk to the cat about topics relating to friends and family or work.
e08r6 TIL that both South Korea and the Maldives once used the tune of Scottish song "Auld Lang Syne" for their anthems. South Korea inherited it from Scottish missionaries. The poet behind the Maldives' anthem, for his part, chose the music after hearing it chiming out of an uncle's novelty clock
PBw TIL that everyone in LBJ’s immediate family had the initials, “LBJ”… Including his dog, Little Beagle Johnson.
wLBWE TIL The Russian railway network is long enough to circumnavigate the globe more than twice
rRjk0 TIL that Oklo mine in Africa consists of 16 sites at which self-sustaining nuclear fission reactions which are thought to have taken place approximately 1.7 billion years ago, and ran for hundreds of thousands of years.